if you guys enjoy watching me get absolutely fleeced by collectors this
is gonna be the best episode yet ladies and gentlemen i am coming at you
with the one the only
hot wheels pc the good news for me is
that the 1900-ish u.s dollars that i spent to acquire this thing is
considerably less than the 6 000 bounty
that i offered on the WAN Show for a full set including the tower monitor
keyboard mouse mouse pad and racing wheel all
of which i've got the bad news
is that that ended up being just to borrow it i have to send it back when i'm done
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full disclosure guys i could have spent the full bounty amount and gotten a hot
wheels pc and full set of accessories that i could have kept but the main
reason that i didn't is because
i don't want one and i'm not the only one both the hot wheels
computer and its cuter cousin the barbie computer were colossal failures for a
number of reasons starting with well the branding you see in 1999 it was
more common for families to have a single desktop computer that everyone
shared so even though they were priced quite attractively at just 600 us
dollars the tackiness of the design inherently
made it a niche product because it was really only for families where junior or
little miss was going to have their own computer in their room problem number
two was the product i mean on the surface it
sounded pretty good Intel CPU Windows 98
a whole host of included educational software and games i mean the hot wheels
one check this out even came with a hot wheels branded
steering wheel and pedal for racing games only the computers themselves were
sick a full 50 of the initial units
apparently suffered from bad power supplies causing a rush of customer
service complaints and returns
um let me just make sure this is the tear
down one hold on making matters worse even if the quality
was perfect the product faced significant criticism for being a pretty
underwhelming computer even for the low price holy sh
patriot computers was based in canada sorry all the disappointed children uh
on behalf of my fellow canadians then
wait what okay
got our cd-rom drive floppy as well as a
hard drive in there i believe this unit here was a celeron 333 model with a six
gig hard drive i want to say 6.4
the other one's got a 10 gig oh wait no i think i get it it's all one big piece
here i think i actually do have to take out this stupid screw on the bottom
this is the for parts one
okay wow it literally does not have a single
expansion slot i mean look at this rear i o shield
two usb 2s modem
speaker mic monitor out oh serial and
two more usbs that's it pop the id and
floppy cables off and let's see if we can oh yeah there we go
slide the drives out get a bit of a better look at that
supremely unimpressive motherboard
what the motherboard tray just like pops up like that wow
well that mile that would make assembly like pretty easy actually good idea
patriot computers too bad you never live to see it through i wonder if they
actually did like a custom board for this thing oh never mind this is from
back when Intel made their own motherboards see there's actual Intel branding right
there on the board definitely nothing stand out about this machine other than
the failure rate apparently so many of these died during the product life cycle
that the manufacturer patriot computers was ultimately driven to bankruptcy
don't feel too bad for them though they went down real ncix-like actually
accepting orders and people's money up
until the very end leaving thousands of people with computers that they ordered
and were not going to receive mattel ended up having to issue 100 free toys
and gift certificates to angry parents who thought they were going to be
getting a hot wheels pc or barbie pc for their kids for christmas but found out
last second that they were going to end up with nothing
but did their kids really miss out there's only one way to find out in
addition to this for parts unit i've actually got what this particular
collector refers to as a museum grade
hot wheels pc that is fully functional
and for funsies i'm going to tell my kids that i replaced their computer
with this and see what they think of it
it looks good do you want to try it okay
i'll press it harder yeah there you go this button is to open
up the cd drive oh well we got to turn on the monitor
too can you press power button on the monitor you gotta give it a
little pushy push there hey there we go
i missed that sound so it's got some games already loaded on it when you just
move this a little bit it goes so far um
yeah so this is a new technology um it's actually a ball mouse it's for
ballers do you know what a baller is no okay baller's someone who's just you
know they ball too hard right um
so it's got like a ball in there so the ball moves a little roller inside the
mouse and that's what moves the cursor around pretty much what i'm trying to say is there's no way to adjust that who
put napster on this uh why don't we try why don't we try a game that it comes
with so hot wheels actually
shipped the pc with a cd wallet and
a collection of software official collector's guide
rally challenge tattoo designer
uh brian the electrician threw a few things in here for me as well need for speed two why don't we try lost vikings
too hmm can i try something new old tab
i actually do not know this app cannot be run in a window uh okay
hey there we go
what do you think does this seem better than the yellow computer
we're looking for the big shiny metal thingy that brought us here well
i know a spell that could send you there of course you don't buy a hot wheels pc
to play lost vikings you buy hot wheels pc
to play racing games please tell me there's a driver cd in here all right
why don't you fire up the stunt track driver okay you want to do the goldfish bowl race
the room race sand castle race i don't know
we'll pick one fine maybe slightly more cooperative
okay this one thanks okay do you know which one is gas this
one yep okay here we go
wait is does this game even use the wheel oh okay wow you sure wipe out a
lot kid i don't know but you gotta steer a little bit
are you like you're supposed to use like what are you even supposed to well hold
on but does this control it it totally does you have to like crank
it though what the oh you're going backwards that's a trick
what's wrong with this computer compared to the old one i see lots of lines
scan lines well steering wheel doesn't work much you know some people pay good
money to have scan lines on their uh on their computer it doesn't work
okay let's try something else let's try need for speed all right you know what
forget the wheel it's hard why don't you just use the uh
keyboard what do you think this game got pretty good graphics
yeah are you sure
kind of i like the old computer better what do
you think is this a pretty cool computer yeah
okay i'm gonna uh quit this one is there a minecraft on it minecraft you say
uh nope it does have other games though do you
want to try some different games
there's magic school bus solar system
okay so you just click on stuff maybe try clicking on liz uh you gotta
click on them why i want to cool facts about uranus
cool facts about uranus sure uranus let's go with that
uh something to click there 32 000 miles across 84 years it's been
84 years for one year at least 15 moons
oh yeah there's that cd-rom spinning up gotta load that content you think pretty
good graphics as good as minecraft
yeah you know i think my kids uh
unironically probably wouldn't care if i swapped out their existing computer with
this one i'll be right back go ahead and cut for a sec uh hold on i'll be right back can i cut
okay is there a video here andy yeah i think
so okay
ow okay well the whole kids react to part
didn't go exactly how i expected i sort of thought they'd be like oh my
monitor's so big oh why is it so loud oh why do the graphics suck they just
don't care at all i guess content's still king right so
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